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==Overstock.com and ICANN==
==Overstock.com and ICANN==
===Issue of Single Letter and Two Character Domain Names===
Overstock.com is a member of [[ICANN]]'s [[CBUC|Commercial and Business Users Constituency]].<ref>[http://www.bizconst.org/members.htm BC Membership List]</ref> The company has been involved in the different activities of ICANN since 2004. In 2005, Overstock.com's chairman and CEO Patrick Byrne, sent a letter to then ICANN CEO [[Paul Twomey]] requesting the [[ICANN Board]] to support a policy allowing the registration of single letter domain names. Byrne informed Twomey of its interest to register the single letter/second level domain name O.com. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/byrne-to-twomey-11nov05.pdf Dr. Patrick Byrne Letter to Paul Twomey]</ref>
Overstock.com is a member of [[ICANN]]'s [[CBUC|Commercial and Business Users Constituency]].<ref>[http://www.bizconst.org/members.htm BC Membership List]</ref> The company has been involved in the different activities of ICANN since 2004. In 2005, Overstock.com's chairman and CEO Patrick Byrne, sent a letter to then ICANN CEO [[Paul Twomey]] requesting the [[ICANN Board]] to support a policy allowing the registration of single letter domain names. Byrne informed Twomey of its interest to register the single letter/second level domain name O.com. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/byrne-to-twomey-11nov05.pdf Dr. Patrick Byrne Letter to Paul Twomey]</ref>